NFV4 -- can't address hosts by name

Hi all,

I have an Orcon-supplied NFV4 router. The trouble is, I can't address machines on my LAN by name. Names are visible in the DHCP status screen, pinging or browsing or whatever by IP number works fine, but for some reason doing any of those by name doesn't.

I've tried addressing machines as "name" and "name.home" and "name.local" and such-like, but no joy.

There is a setting in the router config for the local network name (defaults to "home"), and I've tried fiddling with that, without success.

Netcomm NFV4 User Guide is useless. :(

Any ideas on how to get this working properly?